Mederville Bridge
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Location | County road over the Volga River at Mederville |
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Coordinates | 42°45′49.1″N 91°25′17.6″W / 42.763639°N 91.421556°WCoordinates: 42°45′49.1″N 91°25′17.6″W / 42.763639°N 91.421556°W |
Built | 1918 |
Built by | F. E. Marsh and Company |
Architect | Marsh Engineering Company |
Architectural style | Concrete open spandrel arch |
MPS | Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 98000808[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 25, 1998 |
The Mederville Bridge is a historic structure located in the unincorporated community of Mederville, Iowa, United States. It spans the Volga River for 156 feet (48 m). This is only one of a few open spandrel arch bridges constructed in Iowa.[2] Designed by the Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, it replaced a covered timber Howe truss bridge. Clayton County rejected all of the original bids to build the structure when they all came in too high. Six companies bid a second time on the project, and F. E. Marsh and Company of Des Moines won. They completed in the bridge in 1918 for $17,454.32.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1] On October 2, 2021, it was the site where Kelsey Bergan and Mark Schutte got married.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Fraser, Clayton B. "Mederville Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-09-01. with photos
External links[]
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-79, "Mederville Bridge, Spanning Volga River at County Road C5X, Mederville, Clayton County, IA", 11 photos, 1 color transparency, 28 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- Bridges completed in 1918
- Road bridges in Iowa
- Bridges in Clayton County, Iowa
- Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa
- National Register of Historic Places in Clayton County, Iowa
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
- Arch bridges in Iowa
- Concrete bridges in the United States
- Open-spandrel deck arch bridges in the United States
- Northeast Iowa Registered Historic Place stubs
- Iowa bridge (structure) stubs